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Make Every Day a Day Against DRM

Today, we join the Free Software Foundation in celebrating a Day Against DRM. DRM software restricts the way users can interact with content, which hits close to home for an organization like EFF. Even worse, "anti-circumvention" laws that regulate whether users can bypass DRM, like section 1201 of the DMCA, effectively give that software the force of law.

A decade ago, most of the major players in the music industry were committed to using DRM on their products, restricting the devices users could use to play the songs they had purchased. Since then, that practice has all but disappeared, giving choice back to users and opening the market for more innovation.